Monthly Archives: December 2011

You gotta have a draft routine; the things you do or eat or wear to ensure you’re in the best possible zone while picking players that you will spend the next seven, er, five months swearing at. What do you mean LaMarcus Aldridge might miss the start of the season?

With the top 100 lists sealed in the vault (that could very easily be re-opened by anyone by clicking here), we’ve finished the Lavergne, the Shirley and the Lenny of fantasy basketball lists. Time to get Squiggy with it! These are the best of the rest.

Having produced what feels like 900 reviews of every player ever to touch a Spalding, Razzball’s taking a 20 second timeout and squeezing its cramping side while it catches its breath. Until we’re ready to go-a wasseling again (sometime around noon today), a few announcements need announcing.

Wait! Before you name your fantasy basketball team the “Lob City Clippers*,” just know that I’ve already seen three fantasy owners name their team this and it’s only been 48 hours since Blake Griffin said it! Fantasy team names are like pet’s names: To hell with respectable, the goal is to hit on something funny.

We’ve run through the fantasy basketball rankings for each position – well, you ran through them. I sprinted for a bit, started feeling woozy, then threw up all over my slacks. I don’t know why I wore slacks to a sprint, but I made sure to wear bicycling shorts to today’s 2011 fantasy basketball top 100.

Auction drafting: my favorite time of the year. You can keep your Sweetest Day and your Arbor Day. Give me liberty, or give me auction draft day, or death. It’s the only time where friends and strangers alike converge in one place and sweat it out uncomfortably all afternoon.

The air is crisp, the snow is falling, rows and rows of yellow and brown snowmen slump agonizingly in front yards. Yup, it’s official, NBA opening day in December makes everything else seem less awesome. Can you sense it? … No?